MEOR Advantages
There is a plethora of reviewed claims regarding the advantages of MEOR. However, they should be cautiously regarded due to the lack of published supportive evidence. In addition, assessments of both full live cycle analysis and environmental impact are also unknown.
Advantages can be summarised as follows:
- Injected microbes and nutrients are cheap; easy to handle in the field and independent of oil prices.
- Economically attractive for mature oil fields before abandonment.
- Increases oil production.
- Existing facilities require slight modifications.
- Easy application.
- Less expensive set up.
- Low energy input requirement for microbes to produce MEOR agents.
- More efficient than other EOR methods when applied to carbonate oil reservoirs.
- Microbial activity increases with microbial growth. This is opposite to the case of other EOR additives in time and distance.
- Cellular products are biodegradable and therefore can be considered environmentally friendly.
Read more about this topic: Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery
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